Oven Fried (Baked) Pickle Chips with Sweet Horseradish Sauce

I made these Oven Fried Pickle Chips using SPLENDA® Sweeteners as part of a sponsored post for SocialStars #SplendaSweeties #SweetSwaps

Oven Fried (Baked) Pickle Chips with Sweet Horseradish Sauce

Crisp Oven Fried Bread and Butter Pickle Chips with delicious tang and sweetness. Dip them in a sweet and spicy horseradish sauce for a flavor explosion.

I remember the first time I had fried pickle chips. It was in Macy’s or Lord and Taylor in New York City about 20 years ago. Every year I would visit my grandmother, who lived in New Jersey, and we would spend days walking and sightseeing through New York. On one of these trips, we needed a little snack and stopped at the food counter in the department store. I saw pickle chips and was intrigued. I had never heard of them before. Oh man were they good. They were crisp and tangy. I didn’t see them on another menu until a year or two ago. Now it seems like pickle chips have gotten popular. That food counter was way ahead of their time.

To this day I still love fried pickles, but they no longer fit into our healthier lifestyle. It was time to re-create these little gems; so we do not have to live without them any longer. I started with some home-made bread and butter pickles. You can make your own or use store-bought. They are incredibly easy to make, though. Then it was a quick dredge in all the normal suspects flour, egg and panko. The real trick here is time. After you bread them, put them in the refrigerator. You want the coating to adhere to the pickle. After that, the oven and non-stick cooking spray do all the work of crisping up these babies.

Sweet and tangy pickle chips deserve a sweet and zesty sauce to dip them in. SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend and horseradish rode to the rescue. SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend is not just for baking. It gave a lovely sweetness to this dip that balances the spice of the horseradish. Plus it was fewer calories. Swimsuit season is just around the corner, you know. Swapping sugar for SPLENDA® Sweeteners is another fabulous way to enjoy a little sweetness without all the calories.

The really big surprise for me, was that my pickle-hating husband loved them. In fact, he ate the whole plate. OK, I do not recommend eating the whole plate. Share these delicious appetizers with the ones you love and do not hog them for yourselves. While you are enjoying these delicious morsels, check out SPLENDA® Sweeteners website. They have a wonderful section called Sweet Swaps were you can find lots of recipe inspiration. You can also follow them on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram.